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Contributions to Annuals and Gift Books (Hardcover)
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Contributions to Annuals and Gift Books (Hardcover)
Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg
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In 1822 Rudolph Ackermann's Forget Me Not [...] for 1823
established a fashion for handsomely produced and copiously
illustrated annual anthologies of short literary works. Books of
this kind were designed as Christmas and New Year's presents, and
in the 1820s and 1830s they became a significant publishing
phenomenon. Like other well-known writers of the time (including
Wordsworth, Scott, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon), Hogg was a
contributor to the annuals, and Contributions to Annuals and
Gift-Books brings together all the Hogg texts that were either
written for, or first published in, annuals and gift-books.
'Invocation to the Queen of the Fairies' in the Literary Souvenir
for 1825 was Hogg's first known contribution to an annual, and
thereafter writing for the annuals became 'a kind of business' for
him during the economic slump of the late 1820s. Contributions to
Annuals and Gift-Books contains some of Hogg's finest short stories
(for example 'The Cameronian Preacher's Tale' and 'Scottish
Haymakers'), as well as some of his best-known poems (for example
'A Boy's Song' and 'The Sky Lark'). This volume highlights a
coherent part of Hogg's total literary output, and in doing so
provides new insights into an area of nineteenth-century publishing
history that is attracting increasing interest and attention. Hogg
was a professional writer with an acute awareness of the shifting
trends of the literary marketplace during the 1820s and 1830s, when
annuals were at their peak of popularity. However, his literary
objectives did not always match the needs of the annuals, and as a
result some of his contributions were returned as unsuitable for a
family-oriented audience. Hogg's sometimes complex negotiations
with the editors and publishers of the annuals are meticulously
documented in Contributions to Annuals and Gift-Books. In this
context, the volume (for example) reprints both Hogg's manuscript
version of 'What is Sin?', and the version actually published in
Ackermann's Juvenile Forget Me Not. The engravings for which Hogg
wrote are included in the present volume.
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